Two Kids Swim Near a Great White Shark & People May Be Fishing For White Sharks in California 

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Ruined my morning

The truth can hurt but is necessary

What was so upsetting? Maybe you should stop taking estrogen... you'll act like a actual man then

Yes & there wouldn’t be a word about the moron parents

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And they would be sure to mention the guy filming it as a culprit cuz he didn’t help like wtf world lol

Literally never seen a headline anything like that. Everyone knows it’s never the sharks fault.

@PETER NORTH - THE SPLASH FATHER so humans know sharks are dangerous. Humans decide to ignore the obvious danger and swim in the sharks hunting grounds. That’s the humans’ fault. Obviously.

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Why?

@@fomofud9479 so the kids know next time to take a fishing rod out and surf the shark silly

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@@pineapplesideways3820 Aha! 😂

where do you see paddle boards? lol

Can't imagine, cause I'm as terrified as baffled by sharks.

@@Experiment626XxX the ones at 3:41

@@Experiment626XxX ( Stand Up) Paddle Board

None you tool, they were trying to get around it. Blindly believing a clueless commentator is so dumb lol

ummmmmmmm I wasn't really in trouble with my parents when they saw me in the video

It's NOT a good idea to approach strange children. Are you some kind of sicko? Stop advocating for others to bother children.

@@colonialkatana Of course you weren't! Not funny!

Sharks have never caused a phobia in me. These are beautiful, very intelligent and graceful fish. By the way, they are much safer than the same dogs, not to mention lions and tigers.

If I ever get attacked or eaten by a shark, I hope I can replay this music in my head during that time...

@AnnaLeighdeParis Well said!! That's exactly how I feel.

I honestly am very happy for you in your changing mindset. It is, indeed, very unfortunate that Shark Week has devolved into a manic, hyperactive, overly-dramatic show just featuring frenzied animals and overpaid celebrities with hard-driving metal music to cap it off. It used to be so educational; now, it's on par with comic book movies. It's perfectly OK to have, as you say, a slight fear of sharks; we naturally fear what we don't understand or can't control. So, as long as you temper fear with curiosity, as you're doing, you can show these amazing creatures the respect they deserve. Props to you! 🙂

not a matter of harassing, they'll just eat you if it's convenient or they happen to want to. Just ask Cameron Robbins

You're much more likely to be struck by lightning. Do you spend all of your time indoors?

@@davidgreer6042 : Im much more likely to never be eaten by a shark, thats what the deal is.

As someone who is from a small beach community I could never imagine not having all the amazing experiences the ocean has given to me just because of a fear that has been heightened by tv.

@@Mysterious-Outdoors : Good for you, I spend 100+ days a year in the woods hunting and I fish fresh water all the time. You do your thing and I will do mine.

School buses with teeth swim around out there. Even if it is a small one I won’t be part of the statistics...

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@@brianacamero9624 : Quotation*

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@@rodrigolemus7849 “QuOtAtIon” of course it’s going to have quotations because it’s an actual quote🤦🏾‍♂️😂

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My exact thoughts

agreed.. im new to surfing and sharks were something that kinda scared the shit outta me lol.. but after watching some of these videos.. im not nearly as worried.. nice sharkies...

Like all predators, it's not mindless. It will not attack something just because. But it CAN attack and leave serious damage. Sure If you're a professional you can handle these creatures better than the average person, but the average person has no bussiness being this close to the sharks. They may panic and agitate the animal.

Realize that when the kid was looking right at the shark it did nothing then they got closer and the shark only move closer when one of the kids turn his back to the shark and started moving his legs and arm on top of the board now we watching from the drone we can see easily is a kid on a surfboard but ask your selves what did change in the view of the shark to make him move towards the kid what was the shark viewing at that moment is pretty easy to answer a SEAL that's why he moves to check it if that shark had attacked the kid everyone would blame the shark but is an animal been provoked and taunt but a kid looking like a seal

that shark was likely checking if he could have some breakfast but wasn't that hungry, 2 childs were lucky...if a shark is desperate for food that was their last encounter....it's all about luck when you encounter one...

You are so right in pointing out "Nowadays, it's so popular to say "sharks are not dangerous"". I was at a major aquarium one time where they petting the small sharks was allowed. I went up to the animator and was in the process of asking her about the safety of touching the creatures and their nature, etc., and she was a starting to speak glowingly of the animal (as humans often do humanize animals in human terms), when suddenly a kid yelled out he had been bit. She turned look at him and immediately dismissed that that did not happen. The kid was not close to us and she hadn't even seen his injury. In any case, it was a bite and the kid was attended to later. I find adults are irresponsible in messaging even in pre-schools and KGs with in-house petting visits that wild predatory animals are harmless, that it's just us humans that the "bad guys",

Yeah "shark infested waters" like bish if sharks were as intelligent as humans and roamed coastal cities for fun with fish bowls on their heads THEN you can say something is shark infested

what did they do lmao

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What's wrong with fishing for them? I do it all the time and its fun!!

@@delmar2169 because they are endangered they are a natural order and have to survive for the environment dude so please fuckin stop

At the same time ppl need to understand that sharks can be very dangerous to humans if we are in their environment & give them respect ! As the video shows we have two too many humans thinking we can share the sharks environment & that’s not what kids need to be taught! Only professionals should be in the ocean w the sharks doing scientist observations & helping the sharks when they have fishing line & hooks in their mouth!

And it would be the fault of the boogie/paddle boaters not the shark but the shark would be blamed!

Don't kids get more emboldened when they notice there's a drone nearby?

@@coenpull4214 How is it the drone's fault? The drone is there to warn people.

@@taskforceknight9336 Well, sure, I'm no expert at this, but it seems possible to me that the drone might give them a sense of security and/or incite them to show off their courage.

@@coenpull4214 No what kind of logic is that? How is a drone going to physically save you from a shark attack? Its warning system. It cant fight off the shark. The kids were probably distracted trying to get the drones attention. Parents are supposed to teach their kids what it means if there is a drone nearby you at the beach

Why wouldn't it? Are we so propagandized by Big Shark that we feel silly for being alarmed by a GW approaching little kids?

Check out the New Zealand video where two kids swimming are within a few feet of two Orcas, that swim straight at them. That’s a heart stopper

​@@brettmcdonald4138There was a Video about a stupid guy who jumped on a baby orca. I hoped the mother orca will teach him respect. Unfortunately she didnt bite him. Orcas dont attack humans. Only in sea world.

Why? The shark was very calm. The children werent even worth a little test bite

You would need to ensure that you had an ample supply of 'tinted, toilet tissue' on hand to provide for the inevitable 'bowel movements' induced by their realisation that they had actually participated in such 'close encounters of the (dorsal-finned) kind'!

@@petergleave7807 I know right?

Agreed!!

I was thinking the same

Great idea!!

It's California man there's sharks in the water all the time 99 percent of the time you don't see them and they don't attack you

@@bruderschweigen6889 I mean that’s very true but that shark got insanely close to those kids. That could have very very easily been an attack whether it’s California or not. Like if this didn’t shock you how close that shark got to them something is wrong with you. And I wouldn’t say 99% of the time they won’t attack you. Maybe an adult. But this shark got way to close. 99% of the time they don’t get this close. Also one of the kids is thrashing around so yeah this is rare footage and very luckily that shark didn’t attack.

Yeah that was crazy. That made my heart stopped. Sharks don’t usually get this close I don’t think. Those kids are extremely lucky.

@@jasmine9064 It's not a swimming pool there's inherent danger going in the ocean at anytime same if you go on a hike just know the risk and be smart. If anything were to happen to those kids it's on their parents.

@@bruderschweigen6889 No shit it’s not a swimming pool. And I 100% agree with you. If something happened to those kids it would fully be on the parents. No doubt. I also agree with you going into ocean is a risk just like going on a hike you can be attacked by a bear or whatever. I’m just simply saying don’t make it seem like sharks getting this close is a normal bc it’s not. Are they always around us in the ocean? Of course. But you saying 99% of the time they get this close and they don’t attack is not true. As I said before 99% of the time sharks never get THIS close like in the video. That’s all I’m saying.

Why are you crying bro

Sharkfin soup is delicious.

Dude don’t forget to call your boyfriend to come comfort you as struggle through the pains of watching people watching sharks. Give me a break

If it’s tagged, will they be able to locate it to remove the hook from its mouth? I can’t believe people could be so cruel as to leave something like that in an animal’s mouth knowing how much pain and discomfort it could cause.

Wonder if the hook in it's mouth is the one used to catch and tag it? Stop the bull shit!

@@zeb1288R you sound so ignorant.

@phil He mentioned that he was yelling at the kids and they were ignoring him. Even after he spoke to them they went right back into the ocean in the same area. You need to watch, and listen.

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lol it looked like the kids didn't even see the shark and were chasing the drone.

@@sick_vids5344 lmao 🤣😂😂😂

@@sick_vids5344 are you serious ?! 🤣🤦🏽‍♂️

Closest I got was getting crabs

I want to free dive with great whites

@@sharkoftheskies3256 There's a place in Hawaii called One Ocean Diving that lets you swim without a shark cage. There's also places in Quintana Roo that probably do it.

You often do not know the sharks are there

@Kev Campbell I use to surf and sail those waters.

Over 7.5 million sharks are “finned” annually worldwide. Their fins are cut off when they’re alive and dumped back into the water to drown. Humans are the predator who does the most damage. Everywhere. No creature great or small is safe.

Is so upset? About fishing for a fish? Toughen up buttercup.

Yep, never know what kids may do.

Deeper water and i think that was an attack its like sharks going for birds on the surface they know its clumsy and most of the time they force the bird away with the bow of a wave as they surface. give that shark enough room to get some space to tread water and get a grip without beaching itself. this wasnt proof were not on the list it was close and i still think we underestimate the things a shark weighs up before an attack and how long they think aboit it.the wave nearly gave this a forced mouthing but the shark noticed its position and turned

Just like people.

@@renatalosada true

Nature is very predictable if you understand the signs, signals and body language.

They’d never collaborate with him because most of what he said are bullshit conclusions that he drew.

@@thomasflores7817 yep, true. His claims are not supported by facts. The fact that a shark has a hook on its mouth doesn't mean that a person was trying to 'catch a white shark'. I think this dude thinks that white sharks are only big shark in the planet 🤦

@@heeheh0000 exactly. We’re fishing for mackerel, not white sharks lol it’s called bycatch. The amount of times I went fishing for one thing and accidentally caught something else.

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@@rodrigolemus7849 Nah definitely not the greatest, but most certainly the coolest.

@@onyxmoonasquad1 So you don't think Trump was the coolest?

@@michaelcrawford1754 Obama is actually a funny guy.

@@rodrigolemus7849 Obama was the first president who never had a GDP over 3.0 in his eight years as president. Most of the job creation was part time work during his presidency. He outspent all presidents before him COMBINED, cheapening the dollar and burdening future generations . His major triumph ACA was based on fraud. He left the military in shambles. About the only thing good I can say is his efforts at banking reform.

How would they do that?

@@huemann7637 I've seen people on boats go along side marine animals to remove items from them. With sharks I imagine it would be harder but maybe use the same techniques as they do to tag sharks. Jim Abernathy removes hooks from sharks by swimming with them.

Yeah, me too. What can we do to help them and discourage those who are doing this to them? I am vegan so I already am doing something to reduce demand on the consumption that causes bycatch and litter from fishing. :(

@@AishawithanEye soo cool, I'm vegan too, often it just doesn't seem to be enough but it's already a great start 💙

Greetings

Yes I agree. I have watched a video a few mos ago about a scientific group I believe or at least a very professional group of ppl that went out searching for these type problems so they could remove fish hooks , netting, & fishing line! There was a particular diver & I can’t remember his name at the moment, but he took a box crate of fish to the bottom at places that were 10 plus feet of water & he would remove hooks out of sharks ! He had a special given talent for helping & it really seem like the sharks appreciated his help as none ever tried to bite nor attack him! He was so courageous & wonderful for doing this for the sharks! The echo system requires all these animals to keep the ocean clean & not over populated. If not for sharks the oceans would be full of dead carcasses. Just like Vultures clean up the dead animals on highways & etc…. Greetings from North Carolina USA

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Good. Serve the stupid selfish people right

⁠ *Oh stop 🤦🤣… There are over 60 billion square feet of ocean in the world… let’s not act like a shark has to follow kids around. The shark could easily go anywhere else in the ocean. It would be the sharks fault*

let the shark take em id say. 2 less idiots for the gene pool by natural selection and 2 less Californians for the world to enjoy

@@simunator damn bruh, I hate humans too, with a passion. But children deserve a chance. Anyone above 16 who is an idiot and toxic should go though.

​@@harlemworld1174 I'm only playing devil's advocate here, but why the arbitrary line at 16 years old? There surely exists

I’m sorry I have to disagree even tho you might be right! The kids may not have seen the shark. Probably didn’t realize a shark was that close to them. After being warned by the man with the drone the kids were just doing what their moron parents would do by returning into the water bc they were the type that didn’t believe anything they were told! The headstrong rebellious type!!

@@simunator bruh they are kids what do you expect

agree, bunch of comments of people that think sharks are human killing machines, too much shark week for the average american. Sharks cant care less about humans. this is the best proof.

@@valentinballester3196 not true, I live in Australia and sharks sometimes eat surfers mistaken for seals.

Great whites will only attack when they mistake people for seals or turtles or when they're agitated or provoked. Humans are not on their menu: our bodies contain little fat but too many tough bones for them to digest. Great whites will probably check you out, but will mind their business and go on their way. That covers at least 95% of GWS-human encounters.

Yes. I’ve seen much smaller sharks on other videos chance a woman out of the water!! The small shark had to flip himself back into the small wave to get back out to the ocean! He almost beached himself! His behavior made him look as if he was hungry & may not have eaten in awhile! Even tho the shark I saw in the other video was 3 ft long he was definitely chasing the human & all he was seeing was lunch!! I don’t think a hungry shark is going to be a picky eater!! Blood is blood & meat is meat! Yes I know they prefer blubber & fatty tissue.

@@royaldecreeforthechurchofm8409 that’s a very good point, but you also mentioned that it’s a case of mistaken identity, which is also true! A human in a black wetsuit or rash guard looks like a seal when seen from below silhouetted against the sun. It’s that fusiform shape, and sharks don’t have great eyesight to begin with. So they see “black colour + shape” and go “oh sweet, dinner”. But Jaws is expecting delicious blubber and gets rubber, and foam and balsa wood and screaming thrashing whoa-not-a-seal, and most tend to Nope out of the situation after that. Which doesn’t make the human feel any better about this unfortunate case of mistaken identity, of course, but it isn’t like the fish went out of its way to be mean. But I wonder because I don’t know and now I’m curious (because it’s Australia and you guys have bull sharks so for all I know they do eat people on purpose) - in the cases of sharks attacking surfers: is it a whoopsie bite and the person makes it to the beach and passes away there, or is the shark actually attacking with intent to hunt?

I’m thinking they didn’t see the shark. I remember when I was that age & a few yrs older I was always looking in the water whenever I would lay out in the sun & just want to cool off in the water. I never would see a shark. One summer my friend & I went to the beach & waves were kinda rough. We were in very shallow water but bc of the rough waves the sand was stirred up w no visibility. All of a sudden my friend is getting out of the water & told me a log rubbed against his leg & that he caught a glimpse of it being dark. I was just a cpl or 3ft from the shore as he was similar distance & there was no log as it would have washed up on the beach or bobbed in this shallow water! It was most definitely a shark & it had gotten caught up in the wave but went back out! Both of us sat down close to the waters edge in shock of what could have happened so quickly & unexpectedly! We didn’t want to believe what had just happened so obviously the first thing that came to mind was a log! My friend has very seldom gotten back in the water besides walking on the beach at the waters edge & neither have I. Yes, a very scary experience for both of us.

They didn't care. They were told a shark was in the water and not to go back in. They went back in anyway

Another surfer but by a great white today. Play stupid games.... snowflakes indeed.

@@perry5392 They were given “the international sign of a shark.” Do you know what that is? Would adolescent boys? They may have had no idea there was a shark nearby. And you often can’t see what’s under the surface from an angle above. Still, the man explained to them afterward and they still went back out, so that does undermine my point to some degree.

You mean to tell me that there were kids acting reckless? Almost like they’re minors without a fully developed brain and therefore aren’t allowed to vote, but tobacco or drink alcohol…. 🙄 kids do dumb things. They’re kids. You did it too when you were a kid. Shut up

I would hope that researchers had already thought of studying them this way

Really?! I'd love to see it. And thanks for the support!!

Gosh I had NOT thought about it,yet now that Uve brought 2my attn &Iknow IwasNT askD4my opinion-tho seems like U R putN ON the SPOT.HOPEFULLY the situaton will not occur any time soonTY4 such wonderful insight into the beach/ocean communty.My oldest sister,nieces&nephew frequent the area Ufilm in

I was wondering the exact same thing! Hope he answers you.

@@beckerqueiroz I guess he won't. That would be a commitment. I think he leaves this decision for the time when he has to make it. Maybe there already have been such situations? Would we ever know?

@@lemac3200 I guess you are right. I do remember him saying that so far he hadn't witnessed any kind of attack, though.

I think he would have a moral obligation to show to officials such as police , but no need to public

Humans are animals. Other animals do awful things too. Dolphins rape, ducks, rape, chimps commit war. The cuckoo bird knocks off other birds baby's to lay its eggs in its nest to have that bird raise it's children.

Someone who never watched the brutality on Animal Kingdom…

The ignorance of overlooking the innocence of nature, if only to overlook the lack of their own innocence. Opinions and judgements don't mean much coming from primates who aren't civilized or intelligent enough to get along in this world they don't own. Maybe someday, another lifeform will be digging you up like you do the dinosaurs.

@@acspirit6842 Well preserved fossils are rare but maybe I'll be lucky enough for that to happen.

Lmao you've seen too many Disney movies.

Tf?

You got that white

*the hell with humanity*

Humans are NOT animals, no matter how much you try and ignore your conscience.

@@The-GreenHornet we are animals but we turned out to be the dominant species of gods creations of life

Captian obvious over here....without ur comment we would never know that...durrrrr.

Then go swimming w sharks instead of humans Karen.

@@funkfarmer7125 how original 🙄. "Karen" is SOOOOOOO overused and lacks original thought.

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@Phauhk Yohre Mowhter • again, way overused.... I guess anyone who disagrees is a Karen now, huh, Ken 🥱

Having viewed many of the wonderful videos posted by The Malibu Artist on his amazing channel during the past couple of months, I would agree with you were your comments specifically related to Great White Sharks - which are clearly not the ravening man-eating monsters portrayed by the Jaws films; any more than Tigers are habitual predators of humans. As I'm sure you appreciate, however, there are cases - albeit undoubtedly rare in the scale of the numbers of occasions when, as in the case of this video, White Sharks find themselves in close proximity to humans - the sharks have actually eaten - not just taken a (potentially fatal) tentative bite out of - people. I can think of three cases of this occurring off the coast of Moreton Bay, South Australia, in 1986 / 7 (I was paying particular attention to Australia, back then, because I had just returned to to the UK after 2 1/2 years spent travelling 'Downunder'). There have also been several occasions on which White Sharks have taken bites out of Surf-skis and paddle boards of holidaymakers at beaches near Perth, WA (fortunately without damage being caused to the people involved); and also one case I can recall of a repeated - and fatal - attack on a man which occurred in very shallow water at a popular beach resort - possibly the same one which featured in the other incidents - which was witnessed by numerous holiday-makers, some of whom made heroic - if unsuccessful - attempts to save him. I think the moral to this particular story is that White Sharks need to be treated with the respect due to any wild animal which is - like a tiger, or a lion - a 'Top Predator', potentially well capable of including man in its 'prey list'. It does seem, however, that - like the two 'Big Cats' - Great Whites are not in the same league as estuarine crocodiles and polar bears which are known predators of Man. As for sharks which are known to pose a serious threat to humans, Tigers and Bull sharks are particularly dangerous, and the Oceanic White Tip shark is a particularly aggressive species which is known to have been responsible for mass attacks on humans who have been ship-wrecked (The W.W.2 U.S.N. Indianapolis incident, and the case of the wreck of H.M.S. Birkenhead off Natal in the nineteenth century). Best wishes!

"I don’t understand why people want to agitate a young shark" -- Maybe you should start a movement: Shark Lives Matter. Take your cause to open water and march side by side with the great whites. I'm sure they'll embrace you and nothing bad at all will happen to you.

Stunning like runway models...

Yeah they're beautiful as they rip your leg off. Not to mince words but impressive, yeah beautiful um not so much.

@@michaeldose2041 stay the fuck out of their territory and their water and you won't have your legs ripped off...

@@Speakingthetruth999 Whatever you say Karen.

Note to self: use drone to harass paddleboarders.

Look 'on the bright side' in respect of phobias; unlike spiders, at least you don't have to deal with a Great White in your bath!

I highly doubt that were fishing for whites they probably caught that one as bycatch from targeting Makos or Whalers that's why the hook was cut of and the shark is still in the ocean

@@petergleave7807 I have arachnophobia really, really badly. Just about lost my mind when one ran across my freaking headboard about 2 feet above my head a couple of weeks ago. Can’t even tap on thumbnails of them when RU-vid decides I wanna look at huge spiders on Australia for some reason. I’m not like that with sharks. They fascinate me, even though I’m afraid of them. 😂🤣

@@leroyking8746 That could definitely be true. Hate seeing any marine life with hooks stuck in their mouths, caught in lines etc.

@@leroyking8746 Hook was so obviosly cut because shark had gps location device on it.Seriously you cant be that niave

I agree I hate ppl harassing any animal. But I do not think there is a risk of the shark attacking in that case, they are not fighters they are opportunistic predators, They always swim away if you try to approach them concerned for their own safety If a shark charges against you and you punch him it will go away, if you try to do that to a lion or tiger they will be so much happy to destroy you

​@@walterpayton2120I think you're right. Videos of people redirecting sharks prove your point. So you don't even have to punch, just push away the nose with your hand.

@@walterpayton2120 It's illegal to touch or strike an animal in the wild.

​@@mahmoudibnemir8704I'll try to remember that if I'm being eaten. I don't want to go to jail after I die.

@@AlexADalton You should just let the shark eat you. Remember, you're the intruder in their backyard and not vice versa. Leave your privilege at the shoreline, please.